The MASALA (Movies, Sitcoms, Literature) Quiz (Finals) at the NSIT Quiz Fest 2015, conducted by the NSIT Quiz Club from 20th-22nd March. See the videos and audios for the questions here- http://goo.gl/Cv1yzP

1. The MASALA (Movies,
Sitcoms, Literature)
Quiz: Finals
NSIT Quiz Fest 2015

2. Ze Spicier Finals
Masala Quiz

3. Fine Print:
 Four rounds!
 Scoring will be declared then.
 The Quizmaster got drunk in the prelims.
 QM is your girlfriend’s worst nightmare- he’s always right.
 Don’t you dare not have fun, m*thaf*ckas!

4. ROUND 1
Dry Spell

5. Q1. Fill the empty spaces to
win the question’s heart.
 In Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the ______,” a hungry fox
leaps at, but cannot reach, a bunch of _____.
 As he slinks away he tells himself they weren’t ripe yet
and he doesn’t need any ____ ______.
 Basically, it refers to the attitude of people who
disparage something they seem to want but can’t get.

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7. Answer
Sour Grapes

8. Q2. Series bataao!
 Charlie Brooker explained the series' title to The Guardian,
noting: "If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug –
then what, precisely, are the side-effects? This area –
between delight and discomfort – is where X, my new drama
series, is set. The 'X' of the title is the one you'll find on
every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the
cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone."
 X features speculative fiction with dark and sometimes
satirical themes that examine modern society, particularly
with regard to the unanticipated consequences of new
technologies. The series is produced by Zeppotron for
Endemol. Regarding the programme's content and structure,
Brooker noted, "each episode has a different cast, a different
setting, even a different reality. But they're all about the
way we live now – and the way we might be living in 10
minutes' time if we're clumsy."

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10. Answer
Black Mirror

11. Q3. Khel kya hai bhai?
 Throughout the game, the player solves puzzles so Tiffi
(short for Toffette) can solve problems plaguing the
residents of the _____ Kingdom. These include tutorial
guide Mr. Toffee, whose voice was changed from an over-
the-top French accent in the original version of the game
into a more modest deep male voice, the Easter Bunny, the
shop owner Mr. Yeti, Odus the owl from Dreamworld levels,
the villainous Bubblegum Troll, and many others.
 The game received particular mention in Hong Kong
media, with reports that one in seven Hong Kong citizens
plays the game. The game is also featured in Psy's music
video "Gentleman". In December 2013, King entered the
Japanese market with a series of television commercials in
Japan, and by December 4 it had become the 23rd most
downloaded game in Japan on Android devices and number
1 most downloaded from the App Store.

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13. Answers
Candy Crush Saga

14. Q4.Ex do...Aur whY bhi!
 Except to acknowledge that he first learned about X's death
when he was folding newspapers for his paper route on the
morning of February 4, 1959 (the line "February made me
shiver/with every paper I'd deliver"), Y has generally avoided
responding to direct questions about the song lyrics.
 He also stated in an editorial published in 2009 on the 50th
anniversary of the crash, that he considers the song to be "a big
song (…) that summed up the world known as America.".
 Madonna released a cover version of the song in March 2000 to
promote the soundtrack to her film The Next Best Thing.
 In February 2015, _____ stated publicly that he would reveal the
meaning of the lyrics to the song when the original manuscript
goes for auction in New York City in April 2015

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16. Answer
 X – Buddy Holly
 Y - McLean

17. Q5. Bittoooo! Kaun hai ye
aadmi??
 X started playing harmonium for little known ghazal singers at
the various food festivals in Delhi's Pragati Maidan. He was
later introduced to R.V. Pandit, who offered him a job in his
CBS music company in Delhi. Later, he was recommended by a
friend to the filmmaker Gulzar, with whom he successfully
collaborated on TV serials such as The Jungle Book, Alice in
Wonderland and Gubbare. X composed the music for Maachis, a
film directed by Gulzar. The musical score for Maachis was
received to critical and commercial acclaim and gained X the
Filmfare R D Burman Award in 1996. In 1999, X received the
Rajat Kamal award for Best Music Director at the National Film
Awards for his critically acclaimed score in Godmother.
 He also did some second unit work for the legendary Francis
Ford Coppola on the latter's film Youth Without Youth. His next
directorial release was Blood Brothers, an 11-minute short
film, which is part of Mira Nair's series of HIV-AIDS awareness
films. Guillermo Navarro is the cinematographer on this film.
He has also done music direction in the film No Smoking.

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19. Answer
Vishal Bhardwaj

20. Q6. Whut iz zis Exx??
 The original game was released as X in 1991 as a two
dimensional platform game, which was IBM PC compatible,
and featured 320×200, 16-color EGA graphics with vertical
and horizontal scrolling. The original game had three
episodes, the first distributed as shareware.
 For X II, the sequel was over four times larger and took
advantage of 256-color VGA graphics, MIDI music, and
digitized sound. Only 16 colors were actually used onscreen
at once; however, three different 16-color palettes were
used in the game.
 The third game in the series was the first-person shooter
(FPS) titled X 3D and was released in 1996. Like most FPS
games of the day, X 3D featured three-dimensional
environments with two-dimensional sprites standing in for
weapons, enemies, and breakable background objects. X 3D
is perhaps the most recognized of all three, with over a
dozen expansion packs.

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22. Answer
Duke Nukem

23. Q7. Kisne kya bola rey
Sambha?
 This popular phrase/word traces back its origin to a
recording session in a Tracey Ullman Show. X was
required to speak what was written in the script in an
annoyed tone, who uses it quite regularly now. The
phrase was inspired by Jimmy Finlayson, who appeared
in Laurel and Hardy movies as a minced oath. First use
of this phrase was in the Ullman short “Punching Bag”.
In 2001, the phrase was added to the Oxford English
Dictionary; The definition given is:
 “Expressing frustration at the realization that things
have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one
has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu.
Mildly derogatory): implying that another person has
said or done something foolish.”

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25. Answer
X - Dan Castellaneta
The phrase is ‘Doh!’

26. Q8. Je kaahe ka baat kar raha
hai bhai?
 The genre of X films are comedy films where physical
comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, are
highlighted over dialogue, plot and character
development. The physical comedy in these films
contains a cartoonish style of violence that is
predominantly harmless and goofy in tone.
 The name X comes from the Italian language word
batacchio or bataccio — called the X in English — a club-
like object composed of two wooden slats used in a type
of theatre. When struck, the battacchio produces a loud
smacking noise, though little force transfers from the
object to the person being struck. Actors may thus hit
one another repeatedly with great audible effect while
causing very little actual physical damage. Along with
the inflatable bladder (of which the whoopee cushion is
a modern variant), it was among the earliest special
effects.

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28. Slapstick

29. Q9. X, Y and Z walk into a bar. Then
they get amnesia. Help them!
 The name X means awakened to emptiness.
 X’s design was based on Tanton, of Y's
prototype manga ________ and Tongpoo, from
his other manga The Adventures of Tongpoo.
 When Y started his first draft of Z he originally
planned on making X full monkey to make it
faithful to Journey to the West. During Y's
second draft he wanted to make X a full
human dressed in sailor clothes that rode a
flight instead of the Nimbus.

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31. Answer
X – Goku
Y – Akira
Z – Dragon Ball

32. Q10. See what I did here? If
so, tell me!

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34. Answer
Cutaway section of a Lightsaber handle

35. Q11. Khaali jagah bhar do. Sab
kuch dikhna chahiye!
P.s. That’s what she said!
 The _______ __ ___ ____ has been a proverbial omen
of misfortune since the early 18th century.
 It comes from the Old Testament tale of Belshazzar’s
Feast, a grand banquet hosted by the Babylonian king
Belshazzar for a thousand of his lords. In middle of the
feast a ghostly disembodied hand supposedly appeared
behind the king and inscribed “mene mene tekel
upharsin.”
 Unable to interpret the text himself, Belshazzar called
on the prophet Daniel, who quickly explained that the
message meant the king’s kingdom was soon to be
“numbered, weighed, and divided.” That night,
Belshazzar was killed, and Babylon was claimed by the
Persians.

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37. Answer
Writing on the Wall

38. Q12. Ye Ex-Ex kya laga rakha hai?
Seedha seedha bolne ka na!
 X has a few things to say on the subject of towels.
 “A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an
interstellar ________ can have. Partly it has great practical value
— you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the
cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant
marble‐sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea
vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so
redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft
down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in
hand‐to‐hand‐combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious
fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of
Traal (a mindbogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't
see it, it can't see you — daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you
can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of
course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”

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40. Answer
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

41. Round 2:
Minimalist posters
Differential scoring yay!

42. Q1.

43. Q2.

44. Q3.

45. Q4.

46. Q5.

47. Q6.

48. Q7.

49. Answers

50. 1. Her
2. Fight Club
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Trainspotting
5. Juno
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Interstellar

51. Round 3:
X meets metal!
Firse Ex? Ye QM ko Ex ki bimaari hai kya?
Tabhi itni pee rakhi hai!

52. 1.

53. 2.

54. 3.

55. 4.

56. 5.

57. 6.

58. 7.

59. Answers

60. 1. Breaking Bad
2. Contra
3. Iron Man
4. Pokémon
5. Sherlock
6. The Simpsons
7. Dexter

61. Round 4:
Long Visual Connect
Ab batao babua!

62. 1. +100/-60

63. 2. +80/-50

64. 3. +60/-40

65. 4. +40/-20

66. 5. +30/-15

67. 6. +10/-10

68. 7. +5/-0

69. Bond films
1. DeBeers – Diamonds Are Forever
2. Kabir Bedi – Octopussy
3. Spectre
4. Live and Let Die
5. Goldfinger, GoldenEye, The Man with the Golden Gun
6. Adele – Skyfall
7. Casino Royale winning hand